You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. I’m thinking though that it is in the difficult times that leaders need to embrace the concepts of the Learning Organization and to build a culture of shared leadership. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. It can get pretty complex. What do you think?

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations. Peter Senge has done some amazing work on organization development and systems thinking. QAspire Blog was featured in Management Improvement Carnival Blog Review by Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership Blog. This is true for all businesses large and small.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

They discussed the strategic impact that leadership assessment and profiling can have on successful executive succession planning. It was great to see engagement with both CMI members and non-members for a discussion on levelling up management and leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision. This is our generations great leadership delusion.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. Edwards Deming. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S. Presidents. He is a mentor to senior management.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. To read the complete article, [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Institute on-the-job training.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ). Many people have built their careers and their identities on being experts, and for them this can be terrifying.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. Early on in my career I wondered what made people put their whole hearts and souls into their work. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom.

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